Agropastoral Economies and Land Use in Bronze Age Western Anatolia

Marston, John M.; Çakırlar, Canan; Luke, Christina; Kováčik, Peter; Slim, Francesca; Shin, Nami; Roosevelt, Christopher H.

doi:10.1080/14614103.2021.1918485

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“…More definitive evidence for spinnable wool production emerges in the 5th-4th millennium BCE Chalcolithic-a period of intensification in livestock exploitation for non-meat products like milk, animal fiber, and traction, originally conceived as the 'Secondary Products Revolution' [174][175][176][177][178]. Intensified wool production is well-attested by the late-4th millennium onset of the Early Bronze Age in Mesopotamia and is a component of agricultural intensification associated with Bronze Age urbanism in the Levant [179], Anatolia [180] and Mesopotamia proper [177,[181][182][183]. Institutional palatial and priestly production systems organized much of this production from the mid-3rd millennium BCE in Mesopotamia, encouraging specialized flocks and breeds [127,[184][185][186][187].…”

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A Time to Sow, a Time to Reap: Modifications to Biological and Economic Rhythms in Southwest Asian Plant and Animal Domestication

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This paper reviews changes to lifecycle temporality in Southwest Asian plant and animal domestication, exploring their relationship to long-term processes associated with ancient and contemporary globalization. We survey changes under domestication to the timing of seed dispersal, germination, vegetative growth, flowering and maturation in wheat and barley and to birth, reproduction, lactation, wool production and death in sheep, goats and cattle. Changes in biological temporality among domesticates are ultimately related to globally increasing production intensity, geographic diffusion, and agricultural diversity associated with cultivar/breed evolution. Recently, however, increasing crop production intensity and geographic diffusion are accompanied by declining agricultural diversity worldwide. Similar processes are apparent in contemporary economic and cultural globalization, suggesting that long-term agricultural developments might be viewed as a subset of globalization. Moreover, the origin of certain features of contemporary globalization may be traced back to the beginnings of plant and animal domestication. Thus, while biologists since Darwin considered domestication as a model for the study of evolution, we suggest that domestication may also offer a model for the study of globalization.

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